Research Article

Competition and Integration in Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network with Variational Inequality

Table 3

Notation for the closed-loop supply chain network after complete horizontal merger.

NotationDefinition

The set of all forward links
The set of all reverse links
The set of forward paths between the first layer node 1 with the demand market j, where
The set of reverse paths between the demand market j with the first layer node 1
The set of all forward paths
The number of all forward paths
The set of all reverse paths
The number of all revere paths
The nonnegative remanufactured product flow on the path p ( )
-dimensional vector of all remanufactured product flows on the paths in
The manufactured product flow on the path p ( )
-dimensional vector of all manufactured product flows on the paths in
The EOL product flow on the path p ( )
-dimensional vector of all EOL product flows on the paths in
The set of all product flows,